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porewater

porewater noun: the water that fills the pores between the grains of sediment etc.

Noun

porewater (countable and uncountable, plural porewaters)

  1. The water that fills the pores between the grains of sediment etc.

Forms of porewater

pluralporewaters
alternative formpore water
alternative formpore-water

Origin of porewater

From pore + water.

Questions about porewater

What does porewater mean?
Porewater means the water that fills the pores between the grains of sediment etc.
What part of speech is porewater?
Porewater is a noun.
What is the plural of porewater?
The plural of porewater is porewaters.

Words near porewater in the dictionary

  1. Porepunkah
  2. porer
  3. porers
  4. pores
  5. pores over
  6. porewater
  7. porewaters
  8. Poreč
  9. porfimer
  10. porfimer sodium
  11. porfimers

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